The Midlands Innovation partners have collective strengths in the academic disciplines that apply to 'space' in its broadest sense.
These range from advanced materials and aerospace engineering, astrophysics and earth observation/environment, through to laser physics, management, manufacturing, metrology, planetary exploration, space instrumentation and space system design.
These collective strengths are supported by space and space-related research equipment and facilities that include additive manufacturing, anechoic chambers, cleanrooms, High Performance Computers, mechanical workshops, optical characterisation, surface analysis tools, ultraprecision machining/metrology, vacuum bakeout, vector network analysers and wind tunnels.
The group come together to explore opportunities for collaborative research, discuss training and skills needs for the space sector and how best to utilise the diverse range of space-related equipment housed across the partnership.